Chennai: The focus of Tamilnadu politics has now shifted to urban local body elections.
The State Election Commission will release the final voters list on 9 December. The poll body is holding back to back meetings with officials on holding the elections. Dates are expected to be announced soon.
On their part, the political parties are gearing up to face the polls. The ruling DMK is getting ready for the urban local body polls in the State, particularly in the western districts. The party is in no mood to suffer another defeat in Coimbatore, where it lost all the 10 seats in the Assembly elections.
‘We have to win all the wards in the city corporation, municipalities and town panchayats in the district,’ Electricity Minister V Senthil Balaji told the party workers at a recent meeting.
The main opposition AIADMK on Wednesday moved a plea before the Madras High Court seeking directions to the State Election Commission to ensure free and fair conduct of urban local body elections.
AIADMK represented by its organisation secretary and former minister D Jayakumar has moved the petition stating that there were several illegal activities that were unfolded against the AIADMK candidates in the recent rural local body elections.
The PMK is changing its organisational structure in the run-up to elections to the urban local bodies.
The exercise, which is likely to be completed by this year-end, will empower the district secretaries, putting them in charge of two or three Assembly constituencies.
Both DMK and AIADMK have already invited applications from contestants for all posts in the urban local bodies. The DMDK, which quit the AIADMK alliance before the 2021 polls, will contest alone and has asked its cadres who are willing to contest to apply for the same.